IAM Magazine issue 26

It is now 10 years since David Bowie put pen to paper to seal the first
music royalty securitisation. From what better place than the inside is there
to assess how this deal and those that followed have revolutionised the
world of IP monetisation?

It may have only a few members, but companies across the world have
benefited from work done by The Gathering – an organisation that has been
hugely influential in spreading the intellectual asset management message
over the last decade

A process that began in April
2007 ended at the beginning of
September when the names of
those to be inducted into the IP
Hall of Fame for 2007 were
announced in London. The
inductees were voted in by the
IP Hall of Fame Academy

Patent analytics

Hon Hai Precision Industries takes
the lead from Canon. Honeywell
moves into the top 10 while
Matsushita drops out. Six of the top
10 companies have patent holdings
in multiple scorecard industries, five
of the companies are conglomerates;
however pure-play companies take
the top two spots